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[Roberto Severo]

Hi,

I'm a new user of sendmail and i'm facing the following problem:

On the machine called "astra", which is the mail server, when I try to send a mail using "mail xyz" I can get it just watching the file /var/mail/xyz getting bigger, but if i try to use "mail xyz@astra" i can receive the e-mail.

PS.: astra is configured on the files /etc/hosts, and /etc/mail/sendmail.cw

What could be wrong?

TKS.

[Gary Yu]

Hi Roberto,

do you have domain names on your server? can you "nslookup astra"?

try "mail xyz@astra." note there's a dot after astra

thanks,
Gary